itsallity hits 4* sow alma* Me iletautissa. Pew with an eye toward Ilse* a sew supply of shidricity buildings — such Si bytha piece a the South Tema. Project ;al 7's "excessive rate Increases" will raise the state's tectric bill in Austin by 7.5 percent and force Texas 3 to carry an "unfair cost burden," Clayton said. natty, I feel that this city ordinance is unfair to large s of electricity and particularly unfair to the state fa - deb were long ago established in Austin," the speaker il 7 was designed to provide rate relief for most rest- d small-business consumers and make up that lost re. raising electric bills for large consumers. oters recently approved the saie of the city's 16 per- of the South Texas Nuclear Project, a nuclear gener- t being built at Bay City. Ise Committee on Energy Resources will look at the her potential suppliers, such as the Lower Colorado writy, and could recommend that the state "even go ) purchase part of the South Texas Nuclear Project," Id. option, he said, could be the construction of a state it. The University of Texas already has a small plant the Austin campus. said he was "confident that some alternative solution nd to protect the taxpayers of Texas from this unfair n, for it is indeed the taxpayers who will ultimately ost of these excessive rate increases." yton said, no actual changes can be made until the .! acts, and it is not scheduled to convene again until )83. 'rman of the energy committee is Rep. Joe Hanna of ige. compiled by the state's Purchasing and General Ser- mission showed Proposal 7 will cost the state $653,000 ar, Clayton said. Last year, he said, state buildings sillion to the city for electricity, while state agencies leased facilities paid an additional $3 million: s-ts to remove state buildings from the city's system .ustin would not lose all of its revenue, since any new obably would use city power lines to deliver electric- buildings. Clayton said one estimate showed Austin $5 million a year if another supplier were found. ;aid he began checking into the effect of Proposal 7 ng local newspaper stories and getting preliminary n from the purchasing commission's executive direc- • Foerster. arole McClellan said she was not surprised by Clay- nents. "I have said repeatedly over the past few :e Satchel Paige, we ought to be looking over our — we are not the only ball game in town." erson, assistant director of Austin's electric utility, f the state as a customer wouldn't be lethal, but "I orry if we lost them as revenue customers — that's The revenue loss, he said, would be substantial. 17 also has come under attack before the Public Uti- tssion, before whom a group of out-of-town customers ,ing the rate structure. Commission action has been !le waiting for official opinions from Attorney Gen- White on the commission's jurisdiction and powers, if case. irdesty, White's press spokesman, said Wednesday is waiting for Texas Supreme Court rulings on two ;es before issuing an opinion. If the court's handling 4s answers the commission's questions, she said, Id not issue an opinion. tteiDt to iiet the state fl s? v/e President asked to clarify stand on Texas prisons AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN By DICK STANLEY NOV 13 1981 American-Statesman Staff Texas Attorney General Mark White urged President Reagan Wednesday to explain publicly why his administration is sup- porting "private rooms for prisoners" in Texas prisons. "I'm sure he doesn't know that's what his Justice Department Is advocating," Wilite said. He was referring to the depart- ment's move Tuesday urging a federal appeals court to deny the state's appeal of most of the prison reform orders by U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice of Tyler. One of the judge's orders, which the department chose not to fight, calls for an end to placing more than one prisoner in a cell designed for one inmate because of what the judge said is the prison system's inability to classify prisoners according to their threat to each other. White said the state would continue to negotiate with the Jus- tice Department in hopes of a compromise on the case but that "private rooms for prisoners . . . is simply not negotiable." White also accused the judge's special master in the case, Vincent Nathan of Toledo, Ohio, as being "just a prisoner's mouthpiece." Nathan, White said, has allowed the press to read his reports on prison conditions before state officials see them, resulting in "much of this case being tried in the news media." White said he would meet with Nathan in Houston on Friday to say "the state should have the opportunity to review these reports" before the press does. Justice appointed Nathan to monitor the state's compliance with his reform order. But White contended that the master and his aides are not impartial observers and their reports of items like the system's continued use of inmate guards, some of them armed, are "hearsay based on hearsay (and) filled with false- hoods and misinformation." Nathan has complained that he has been unable to get full cooperation from prison officials in his inspections. In re- sponse, White first said, "Well, I don't believe it" Later, he add- ed, in the interest; of prison security there inevitably would be times when prison officials would rightly deny Nathan "cnti- plete access" to the prison system. As for settlement of the case's main issues, White said the state would continue to fight for reversal of most of the ordered reforms while working to remedy the overcrowded conditions which, he said, "Everybody involved in this lawsuit agrees (is) the main problem. . ."